Food and Cooking
Glossary
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Yakitori
Bite-sized pieces of chicken skewered and grilled, Japanese-style.
In Japan, all parts of the chicken, including the head, skin
and gizzards, would be cooked, but in the UK, it's usually just
pieces of breast meat. The meat is threaded on to bamboo skewers,
dipped in a type of sweet teriyaki sauce, and then grilled for
four to five minutes.
Yam
The yam is a staple food in many tropical countries, particularly
the Caribbean. Yams have brown tough skins and the flesh can
vary in colour - anything from white to yellow to purple - depending
on the variety.
Small yams can be cooked in their skins, but larger ones should
be peeled and blanched for ten to 20 minutes in boiling salted
water before being used. Yams can be used in the same way as
potatoes or sweet potatoes.
Yeast
A microscopic living fungus that multiplies rapidly in suitable
conditions. It's an essential ingredient for bread-making and
brewing. When mixed with warm water, sugar and flour, yeast
produces carbon dioxide, which causes dough to rise.
Yellowtail
The Yellowtail amberjack or Great amberjack, Seriola lalandi
is a large fish found in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It can
be divided into three sub-species: The California yellowtail,
(Seriola lalandi dorsalis), The Southen yellowtail (Seriola
lalandi lalandi), known in Australia and New Zealand as the
Yellowtail kingfish is the largest, with an all-tackle mark
of 114 pounds, 10 ounces. The smallest is the Asian yellowtail
(Seriola lalandi aureovitta) at 61 pounds, 8 ounces.
Yogurt
Yogurt is made from fermented milk and has a great many uses.
It can be consumed as a drink (such as the Indian lassi) or
eaten as a kind of relish (such as the Indian raita, a cooling
mixture of yoghurt and cucumber), or made into a kind of cheese
(such as labneh). It can also be used as a dressing or as a
marinade to tenderise meats, as in tandoori chicken.
Youngberry
The youngberry is a hybrid of a blackberry and a dewberry grown
in western and southern U.S.
